Tomorrow it'll be something other thing to whip ourselves into a frenzy about.

I know I have been advocating calm, reasoned responses to all of these crises,
so we don't trip up over our own panic. But people, enough is enough!

If it makes anybody feel any better, here's my gut reply to Craig Mundie: you
can beat on the GPL all you want, sir. And you can try to co-opt it for your
company's use. But the GPL is not going anywhere. It's too elegant, it's too
efficient, and it's too powerful a license to just roll over and die just because
you want it to. So get over yourself.

I know, not very calm, but I thought if I got it off on behalf of the community,
we might be able to move on. I know I will.

As for all of the corporate crashes and mishaps of late, this is what most
concerns me. Not that any of these events taken individually or as a whole will
lead to the demise of Linux. They cannot, because Linux the kernel started as
a community effort and it will live on, if worse comes to worst, as a community
effort. This is the big difference from OS/2, because that operating system
was initially a corporate effort and once that disappeared, it was too much
weight for the valiant community effort that surrounded OS/2 to bear.

No, Linux is not dead, nor will it ever truly go away.

But Linux can fail to succeed, which in many circles is just as bad.

It all comes down to this: all of the doom 'n gloom surrounding Linux these
days is going to distract us from putting our best efforts into the implementation
of this operating system. It's ridiculous to even worry about this stuff. Linux
will still be here tomorrow for us to code, test, use, document, or kibbitz
about.